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EU’s foreign policy in test after MH17 shootdown
Jul22

EU’s foreign policy in test after MH17 shootdown

EU foreign policy is facing a major test today as ministers gather in Brussels to consider their response to the suspected downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...

[Ticker] Steinmeier wants EU to ‘increase pressure’ on Russia
Jul21

[Ticker] Steinmeier wants EU to ‘increase pressure’ on Russia

German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said Russia so far has not used its influence on Ukrainian separatists to treat with dignity the bodies found in the wreckage of the Malaysia airplane and to grant access to international investigators. “We will have to increase the pressure,” Steinmeier said. …read more...

[Ticker] EU ambassadors in emergency meeting on Ukraine
Jul21

[Ticker] EU ambassadors in emergency meeting on Ukraine

The ambassadors of the 28 EU countries are set to meet in Brussels Monday at 17h30 in a special session to prepare possible further sanctions on Russia, to be decided by foreign ministers on Tuesday. The meeting has been called in the wake of the Malaysia airplane crash in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

[Ticker] German politicians criticise France’s warship deal with Russia
Jul21

[Ticker] German politicians criticise France’s warship deal with Russia

Roderich Kiesewetter, head of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, has criticised France’s plan to deliver a warship to Russia in October. “An export of the French Mistral to Russia would be exactly the wrong signal,” he told Handelsblatt. Karl-Georg Wellmann, head of the Bundestag’s Germany/Ukraine MP group,...

[Ticker] Dutch inspectors arrive at Ukraine crash site
Jul21

[Ticker] Dutch inspectors arrive at Ukraine crash site

A Dutch team arrived at the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine Monday and started the identification of victims, Spiegel Online reports. A spokesman for the pro-Russia separatists believed to be responsible for shooting down the plane said they are cooperating after Russian President Putin told them to. …read more Source:...

EU under pressure to broaden Russia sanctions
Jul21

EU under pressure to broaden Russia sanctions

The US and the UK are putting pressure on the EU to impose tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster. …read more Source:...

[Opinion] Putin’s real war
Jul21

[Opinion] Putin’s real war

How many people – whether Ukrainian or non-Ukrainian – have to die, before the West faces up to the realities of Putin’s war? …read more Source:...

75% of flights continued flying over Ukraine after warning
Jul18

75% of flights continued flying over Ukraine after warning

Despite a series of escalating flight height restrictions by Ukraine over eastern Ukraine, 75% of flights which use the route continued to fly over the combat area before yesterday’s crash, according to high-level European aviation sources. On 1 July, Ukraine set a restriction over its two eastern provinces, saying that no passenger plane...

Merkel: Russia partly responsible for Ukraine crash
Jul18

Merkel: Russia partly responsible for Ukraine crash

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Russia must acknowledge its share of responsibility in the Ukraine airplane disaster. …read more Source:...

[Ticker] ‘Too early’ to say how Ukraine crash will impact EU foreign policy
Jul18

[Ticker] ‘Too early’ to say how Ukraine crash will impact EU foreign policy

An EU diplomat noted Friday it is “too early” to say if the Ukraine air crash, allegedly caused by a Russian-supplied missile, will result in tougher sanctions, e.g. an arms embargo, on Russia. “We are still at the stage of handling the consular aspects of the incident”, the source said. …read more Source:...